> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Remembering Bill Ivey, Guy Cogeval, and Marilyn A. Zeitlin - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/remembering-bill-ivey-guy-cogeval-and-marilyn-a-zeitlin/ - Published: 2025-11-19T23:06:58.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:03:19.000Z - Description: This week, we honor artists, museum directors, politicians who championed art, and others. - Author: Lisa Yin Zhang - Tags: Community, News, In Memoriam, Obituary, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/11/portrait_of_bill_ivey_by_artist_paula_cleggett.jpg) Paula Cleggett, Portrait of Bill Ivey (2020), oil on canvas (photo Paula Cleggett via [Wikimedia Commons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait%5Fof%5FBill%5FIvey%5Fby%5Fartist%5FPaula%5FCleggett.jpg?ref=hyperallergic.com), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en?ref=hyperallergic.com)) [*In Memoriam*](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/in-memoriam/) *is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.* --- **Bill Ivey** (1944–2025) *Former head of the National Endowment for the Arts* House Republicans had recently slashed the agency's budget when he [took over](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/arts/bill-ivey-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) in 1998\. He distributed grants to states where federal funding was historically scarce, including through the Challenge America program, which supported arts education. “I would argue that advancing our living cultural heritage and nurturing our national creativity constitute a kind of internal defense," he once said, "in which we preserve our values and strengthen our citizenry.” --- **Guy Cogeval** (1955–2025) *Former president of the Musée d'Orsay* He [led](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2025/11/14/guy-cogeval-former-president-of-the-musee-d-orsay-dies-at-70%5F6747457%5F15.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) the Parisian museum from 2008 to 2017, and also led the National Museum of French Monuments in Paris and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He was a renowned scholar of the Nabis, a group of French Post-Impressionist painters. --- **James Stevens Curl** (1937–2025) *British architectural historian of death* He was a formidable author and critic, writing prolifically in particular on the architecture and planning of cemeteries. "All my life I have been insatiably curious about the world," he once [wrote](https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/professor-james-stevens-curl-his-work-historian/?ref=hyperallergic.com), "wanting to know facts, why things were as they were, and how they happened." --- **Mark Fisher** (1944–2025) *British politician who championed art* He [laid](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k09pm47llo?ref=hyperallergic.com) the foundation for the Labour Party's policy on arts and culture, and served as arts minister between 1997 and 1998\. If the private sector alone sponsored the arts without public funding, he once [said](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mark-fisher-cultured-old-etonian-180245273.html?guccounter=1&guce%5Freferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce%5Freferrer%5Fsig=AQAAAFn3w0YVVkhZBNlKl4zjKIeIGmdrMbkhXvvzLedKoWViOntv3PcQ6PSRiZDn5VgG5M4lITslnElUtDj45fp0fIcRrvGwnch5evqOZWt76I%5F%5FLiDrr4M1SgC2NJ0A7qggFug9Fy7SIlMKIg0p1MRPI7-5lhtn9qcvDsT-Z7ChtYAM&ref=hyperallergic.com), they would become "increasingly bland." --- **Minne Fry** (1933–2025) *British abstract artist* The painter first [emerged](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/16/minne-fry-obituary?ref=hyperallergic.com) into the London art scene in the 1960s, when she exhibited at New Vision Gallery. Later in life, she exhibited regularly with the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers, winning multiple prizes from the London institution. --- **Kenny Goodman** (1945–2025) *Fire Island sculptor and jewelrymaker* ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/11/q61fr.jpg) Kenny Goodman (photo by and courtesy [Shohanna McCollum](https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1355614693025330&set=a.734233448496794) and [*Fire Island News*](https://www.fireislandnews.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com)) He was an institution in the Long Island community, known for his silver jewelry and wooden sculptures. "Fire Island lost one of its elder statesmen over the weekend," Shoshanna McCollum wrote in a remembrance. "Friend, artist, and legend." --- **Marilyn A. Zeitlin** (1941–2025) *Museum director and curator* ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/11/hta96-1.jpg) Marilyn A. Zeitlin (photo courtesy Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona) She was the longtime director and chief curator of the Arizona State University Art Museum, as well as the commissioner of the United States pavilion of the 1995 Venice Biennale. She was known for supporting socially engaged art and creative freedom. “She was a powerhouse of energy, ideas, and vision,” director and chief curator of Grand Central Art Center John Spiak wrote in a statement to *Hyperallergic*. “She was a FORCE!”